Is this based on something concrete (a BB releasea date or something?) because this would be pretty cool.

I'm only in half-interested in the title itself but would be very interested in confirmation that Warner will be distributing previously unreleased Paramount titles.

And I have been fortunate to escape what has been called “that form of snobbery which can accept the Literature of Entertainment in the Past, but only the Literature of the Enlightenment in the Present.” - Raymond Chandler

'Course I'm respectable. I'm old. Politicians, ugly buildings, and whor*s all get respectable if they last long enough. - Noah Cross

Edit: The more I think about this the more exciting it gets. I don't want to turn this into a Paramount wishlist thread but if this can just pop up unannounced on a release schedule then pretty much anything is fair game.

And I have been fortunate to escape what has been called “that form of snobbery which can accept the Literature of Entertainment in the Past, but only the Literature of the Enlightenment in the Present.” - Raymond Chandler

'Course I'm respectable. I'm old. Politicians, ugly buildings, and whor*s all get respectable if they last long enough. - Noah Cross

This must be the version we all watched in highschool English class in the 90s. I was too busy talking with my best friend in the back of class to know if this was legitimately good. Redford right?

The film famously has a brilliant script by the great Francis Ford Coppola, near-perfect casting with Robert Redford and Mia Farrow, stunning production design and then, incomprehensibly, completely pedestrian direction by some no-name Brit who was never heard from again. Shame. A wasted opportunity.

I think the film is better if Fitegerald's book is read beforehand. Just my opinion.

Yes. THE Great American Novel, or at least as strong a claim as any has to such.

I've been really into the Roaring Twenties too recently, and had been planning to go through The Great Gatsby in time for the movie this month. But since it was pushed back I've added a couple more Fitzgeralds to my reading slate and will finish Gatsby by the summer. I certainly don't go through books as quickly as my movies.

that's what I'm thinking also.
it will be interesting to see if the UK bd comes out when it is supposed to because it has an actual date and pre-order on amazon.uk I believe.EDIT: it just shows a generic pre-order now. I swear it had a date at one time.

This must be the version we all watched in highschool English class in the 90s. I was too busy talking with my best friend in the back of class to know if this was legitimately good. Redford right?

LOL... Just seeing the thread title immediately took me back to AP lit in High School. We read the book, and watched the movie. This movie has always had a special place in my heart, along with another HS Lit favorite, Romeo & Juliet (not the Leonardo Dicaprio version)...

Will definitely be adding this one to my wishlist, for $15 or less....

The film famously has a brilliant script by the great Francis Ford Coppola, near-perfect casting with Robert Redford and Mia Farrow, stunning production design and then, incomprehensibly, completely pedestrian direction by some no-name Brit who was never heard from again. Shame. A wasted opportunity.

Not to be all schoolmarmish or anything, but Jack Clayton was hardly a "no-name Brit who was never heard from again." Clayton was a quite well-known and respected director with a few classics to his credit (The Innocents, Something Wicked This Way Comes, The Lonely Passion of Judith Hearne).

Not to be all schoolmarmish or anything, but Jack Clayton was hardly a "no-name Brit who was never heard from again." Clayton was a quite well-known and respected director with a few classics to his credit (The Innocents, Something Wicked This Way Comes, The Lonely Passion of Judith Hearne).

I wouldn't call it being 'schoolmarmish' at all - anyone who dismisses Jack Clayton that way deserves to be corrected, though Clayton does shoulder much of the blame for the movie's failure. The adaptation is also greatly damaged by the terrible casting - Redford plays Gatsby as bland and aloof, Farrow's sex appeal (so central to Daisy's persona) is non-existent, and I'm still scratching my head over the choice of Bruce Dern as Tom.